--- title: Campus Sexual Assault: Rolling Stone Reveals UVA Gang Rape description: A Rolling Stone account of a brutal rape at a UVA fraternity highlights how far some schools still need to go to address sexual assault canonical: https://time.com/3597579/campus-sexual-assault-gang-rape-uva-rolling-stone/ author: Eliza Gray article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-20T20:59:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:45:22.702Z og:title: Campus Sexual Assault: Rolling Stone Reveals UVA Gang Rape og:description: A Rolling Stone account of a brutal rape at a UVA fraternity highlights how far some schools still need to go to address sexual assault og:url: https://time.com/3597579/campus-sexual-assault-gang-rape-uva-rolling-stone/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Campus Sexual Assault: Rolling Stone Reveals UVA Gang Rape twitter:description: A Rolling Stone account of a brutal rape at a UVA fraternity highlights how far some schools still need to go to address sexual assault twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Report of Gang Rape at Virginia University Reignites Debate on Campus Sexual Assault > Sponsored content. 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In April, 23 Columbia and Barnard students filed a federal Title IX complaint alleging that the University mishandled sexual assault cases_ by [Eliza Gray](https://time.com/author/eliza-gray/) ## Eliza Gray Nov 20, 2014 8:59 PM UTC by [Eliza Gray](https://time.com/author/eliza-gray/) ## Eliza Gray Nov 20, 2014 8:59 PM UTC A [chilling new account of a gang rape](http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/a-rape-on-campus-20141119) of a freshman girl at University of Virginia fraternity house serves as a fresh reminder that much of [campus sexual assault](http://time.com/100542/the-sexual-assault-crisis-on-american-campuses/) is not just confused drunken sex between teenagers, but real violent crime. **MORE:** [The sexual assault crisis on American campuses](http://time.com/100542/the-sexual-assault-crisis-on-american-campuses/) [The story by ](http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/a-rape-on-campus-20141119)[_Rolling Stone_](http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/a-rape-on-campus-20141119)opens with the following disturbing first hand account by a girl called Jackie, who says she was raped by seven men at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house while two other men watched, just four weeks into her freshman year at UVA in 2012. --- > “” --- The story is graphic, disturbing, and may be traumatizing for anyone who has experienced a sexual assault. Beyond the horrific account, the story goes on to use Jackie’s experience, other assaults at UVA, and observations from experts to show the ways in which UVA seems to cover up sexual assault. UVA president Teresa Sullivan denied the school was involved in any cover up of sexual assault, telling _Rolling Stone_: “If we’re trying to hide the issue, we’re not doing a very good job of it.” [Read more at _Rolling Stone_](http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/a-rape-on-campus-20141119) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3597579/campus-sexual-assault-gang-rape-uva-rolling-stone/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3597579/campus-sexual-assault-gang-rape-uva-rolling-stone/"},"headline":"Report of Gang Rape at Virginia University Reignites Debate on Campus Sexual Assault","datePublished":"2014-11-20T20:59:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:45:22.702Z","description":"\"Jackie began to scream\"","url":"https://time.com/3597579/campus-sexual-assault-gang-rape-uva-rolling-stone/","keywords":["Living","Sexual Assault","Crime","Rolling Stone","campus sexual assault","University of Virginia"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Gray","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-gray/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3597579/campus-sexual-assault-gang-rape-uva-rolling-stone/","name":"Report of Gang Rape at Virginia University Reignites Debate on Campus Sexual Assault"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"My Rapist Is Still on Campus: Sexual Assault in the Ivy League","description":"In April, 23 Columbia and Barnard students filed a federal Title IX complaint alleging that the University mishandled sexual assault cases","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/o8izpqKu/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-05-14T14:51:05.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/o8izpqKu.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3597579/campus-sexual-assault-gang-rape-uva-rolling-stone/","duration":"PT6M50S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3597579/campus-sexual-assault-gang-rape-uva-rolling-stone/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```